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  <summary>
    <para>Peter stands for Programmers Extensible Text EditoR.</para>
  </summary>

  <introduction>
    <para>
    Peter is a notepad program much like Notepad++, with several enhancements.
    Peter is developed entirely in C#.
    </para>
  </introduction>

  <section address="Goals">
    <title>Project Goals</title>
    <content>
      <para>
      The main purpose of Peter is to provide a notepad replacement for
      programmers that is written in C#.NET and extended with any .NET language.
      It starts up very quickly but provides an extensibility framework such
      that it can be adapted to any environment / workflow.
      </para>
      <para>In future releases we hope to:</para>
      <list class="bullet">
      <listItem>design and implement a rich exetensibility model</listItem>
      <listItem>encourage the development of plugins</listItem>
      <listItem>improve the performance</listItem>
      <listItem>add support for different editors (Scintilla, VIM, etc.)</listItem>
      <listItem>add support for alternate .NET runtime environments</listItem>
      </list>
      <para>
      It will take time and several releases for us to accomplish all that we would like
      to do with Peter.
      </para>
      <para><legacyItalic>Stay tuned ...</legacyItalic></para>
      
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  <relatedTopics>
    <externalLink>
      <linkText>Peter on CodePlex</linkText>
      <linkAlternateText>Link to Peter project at CodePlex</linkAlternateText>
      <linkUri>http://www.codeplex.com/peter</linkUri>
    </externalLink>
    
    <externalLink>
      <linkText>Original Peter article</linkText>
      <linkAlternateText>Link to original Peter article at CodeProject</linkAlternateText>
      <linkUri>http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/peteredit.aspx</linkUri>
    </externalLink>

    <externalLink>
      <linkText>Our sibling project: Jonathan on CodePlex</linkText>
      <linkAlternateText>Link to Jonathan project at CodePlex</linkAlternateText>
      <linkUri>http://www.codeplex.com/jonathan</linkUri>
    </externalLink>
  </relatedTopics>
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